The situation facing North Melbourne and the AFL’s conduct in resolving the matter raises some interesting questions about the AFL Commission and the way it manages the game. But in pursuing this goal, who does the AFL executive and commission serve?
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The parlous state of NSW racing set to worsen
The full extent of the crisis in the NSW and Queensland thoroughbred racing and breeding industries will be evident today, with the industry likely to defer next year’s Autumn Carnival by at least a month.
Confident Queensland: the Beattie legacy
Peter Beattie was a cunning political survivor who cut his teeth in the Bjelke-Peterson era of semi-democracy and rose through the ranks of the centrist ALP Unity faction as a tough campaigner and political operative. His legacy will be a newly confident Queensland that threw off its “deep north” image in favour of a dynamic and increasingly sophisticated sunbelt economy - but one which is beginning to struggle with growth pains.
